Rakesh Bharti Mittal shares success mantra with young business leaders

Ludhiana, November 29, 2016: Mr.Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice President, M/s Bharti Airtel Limited one of India’s leading business groups with interests in telecom, agri business, financial services, retail, realty, and communication & media devices. Bharti Airtel, a group company, is among the leading global telecom service providers.
He was addressing a programme here on Monday. The purpose of this programme was to make aware to young business leaders about the Business Tips from a Renowned, Experienced & Successful Business tycoon. The event was organised by a local industrial organisation.
Mr. Bharti Mittal began explaining his journey from the mid-70s, where they had huge difficulties in acquiring licensing for the work in the telecom sector, to gradually dealing with some of the largest MNCs, which trained them in great ways to work. He inferred the chief component was the will to make a difference, and when intentions were good, while dealing with stakeholders continuation gets easier and profits flow in automatically. Some of the more important things he felt were empowering the operating team, and above all constantly adding value to business. This was what guaranteed the driving seat to an entrepreneur, and without value driving seat was as good as gone. Being the 3rd largest in-country Telecom network in the world and one of India’s few ventures ready to move overseas, he believed innovative services didn’t find its true worth until they were moved to the world. In Bharti’s eventual success, the key factor according to Mr. Rakesh was understanding the environment, and tapping the opportunities. Luck he defined as a situation where someone is absolutely ready to tap the opportunity at the door, and thus there was no such thing as relying on luck as per him.
While he suggested creating business models and outsourcing IT, he explained competition would always catch up. However, the interesting feature of course was the delay in catching up being proportional to the innovation involved. Never-say-die attitude and managing risks, which are an essential part of any venture, were described as integral to success. he viewed the challenge as the 300 million children in this same country devoid of educational facilities. As an effort, he talked proudly in an almost passionate way about the Bharti School of Telecommunication and Technology and the network of Satya Bharti Schools. While the former was a by-product of their interest to create more skilled labor in the field of telecom, the latter provides absolutely free education to about 30000 children nationwide. After that, he plans to deliver vocational education to every child above 16 thus equipping every child with the basic skill set. The problem of rural areas, he saw as an opportunity to make a difference but it was not just about teaching children, but creating an impact. We at M/s Bharti Airtel Limited, are always striving and challenging conventions to exceed our customer’s expectations in terms of quality, cost, development and delivery. Our biggest strength to achieve rapid growth especially during the last 10 years has been a unique work culture always willing to learn and proactively contribute towards common goal of achieving excellence and high level of customer satisfaction.
There question answer session at the end of the session which was very interesting. The participants cleared their doubts & learned success mantra for their business.